khamsin
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Additional tests have shown that their conditions are aggravated, not directly caused by the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
These victims have few specific complaints beyond an extreme sensitivity to the rapid temperature changes caused by the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German drive, which had swept across Libya as fast and as hot as the desert wind called khamsin, was apparently aimed straight for Alexandria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hot, dry atmosphere produced by the khamsin contains an excess of positive ions.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was, unfortunately, exposed to the north-west winds, burning winds like the mistral of Italy and Provence, the khamsin of Egypt, etc.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
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